@gmo913, you ask a question that is an interesting one to figure out how to answer when you are asking within the context of comparing one school to another. A school may put the most emphasis on voice as an example, but it could be because they are offering less instruction in acting or dance, not because there is more voice instruction than one might find at another school which is known to be strong in dance or acting instruction. So it’s hard to tell exactly what that means.
You mentioned Rider’s Voice Primary BFA. I’m know little about Rider but if you look at their curriculum on their website, it looks like that program includes private voice instruction and a number of other courses that one might find in many MT programs. Rider’s BM in MT has a Piano Primary Track. So it’s possible the “voice primary” classification could be to distinguish between the two vs. necessarily saying that voice is the emphasis of their BFA in MT. It could be, but Rider seems to have plenty of dance and acting training included in that degree track too too.@mttwinsinca care to comment?
What is likely a fair guess is that schools with a strong reputation for teaching vocal performance probably know how to teach voice and care about it as a subject. Rider (Westminster) I would assume is one of them as would be OCU, NYU Steinhardt and many others. Certainly a BM program vs. a BFA often by definition puts greater emphasis on the music though that may not necessarily always come in the form of voice instruction. You’d have to look at the detail.